AusCham Charity Program

At its meeting on 10 March, 2015, the Board resolved to update the criteria for selecting beneficiaries under its Charity Policy to fund sustainable (where appropriate) charitable projects that aim to alleviate poverty, raise living standards, create opportunities or provide crisis relief in affected communities.

The Board resolved that charitable projects should meet the following criteria:

They have an Australian connection or are a Vietnamese NGO

They are sustainable (focus on investment rather than expenditure)

They are grass roots

They are operated by charities with administrations that are voluntary or consume less than 15 per cent of revenue

They do not receive large corporate funding and their funding requirements are similar, or less, to the funding already being generated

Preferably, not be aligned with or represented as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs

365体育官方网址For information purposes only, this revised policy was then presented to the Annual General Meetings of the Hanoi and HCMC Chapters on 24 March 2015.

USD5.565 has been raised for Heartbeat Vietnam at the Tabcorp Saigon Cup last weekend. Added to the $2,069 raised during the 2nd Annual Scramble in HCMC last month, Auscham has raised a total of $7,634 for Heartbeat Vietnam.

AusCham is delighted to announce that Heartbeat Vietnam will be the beneficiary of funds raised at our 2014 HCMC Scramble ($2,069) and Tabcorp Saigon Cup. Each year in Vietnam, one in every 100 children is born with a